Chapter 9
Healthy lifestyle, dieting, fitness and bodybuilding
Compliments in the context of Polish online discussion forums and message boards
This paper studies compliments that occur in selected Polish online discussion forums devoted to topics related to a healthy lifestyle, dieting, fitness and bodybuilding. The aim of the investigation is to find out which syntactic structures, topics and functions are prevalent, and whether the Corpus Query Language is an adequate tool to analyze compliments in data retrieved from Internet forums. The study has shown that (1) the most frequent structures differ from those identified in previous studies, (2) the predominant topics identified in this study only partially overlap with previous studies, and (3) the most common function is expressing solidarity and establishing rapport. The corpus-based methodology and CQL, with some limitations, proved useful and allowed effective examination of a large database of ca. six million words.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Social media and online forums
- 3.Studying complimenting behavior
- 4.Corpus and data collection methodology
- 5.Data analysis
- 5.1Direct compliments
- Structure 1 (“NP {is/looks} (really) ADJ”)
- Structure 2 (“I (really) {like/love} NP”)
- Structure 3 (“PRO is (really) (a) ADJ NP”)
- Structure 4 (You V (really) ADJ NP)
- Structure 5 (“You V (NP) (really) ADJ”)
- Structure 6 (“You have (a) (really) ADJ NP”)
- Structure 7 (“What (a) ADJ NP!”) and structure 9 (“Isn’t NP ADJ?”)
- Structure 8 (“ADJ NP!”)
- 5.2Indirect compliments
- Structure 1 (“You look like NP”)
- Structure 2 (“You are like NP”)
- 5.3Implicit compliments
- 5.4Other compliments
- 5.5Intensifying adjectives and adverbs
- 5.6Internal and external modification
- 5.7Topics
- 5.8Functions
- 5.9Summary
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6.Discussion
- 7.Conclusions
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Notes
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